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PHYSICAL SELF-1

The document discusses the concept of the physical self, emphasizing its importance in shaping self-perception and interactions with others. It explores various psychological perspectives on how physical appearance influences self-esteem and identity, highlighting the societal pressures to conform to beauty standards. Additionally, it categorizes self-esteem into inflated, high, and low, linking these to physical attributes and cultural expectations.

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PHYSICAL SELF-1

The document discusses the concept of the physical self, emphasizing its importance in shaping self-perception and interactions with others. It explores various psychological perspectives on how physical appearance influences self-esteem and identity, highlighting the societal pressures to conform to beauty standards. Additionally, it categorizes self-esteem into inflated, high, and low, linking these to physical attributes and cultural expectations.

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PHYSICAL SELF

1. Define beautiful?

2. Give one (1) person in your life whom you consider beautiful.

3. I am beautiful because
DEFINITION:
• Physical self refers to the body which we interface with our environment
and fellow being. It is a tangible aspect of the person that can be directly
observed and examined.
• People now days are too conscious on how they look. How they see
themselves in the mirror, how people will look at them and what will
people say about them.
• Our concept of our self and the perception of people around us will
always have big effect on how we deal in a situation, cultural or not. This
discussion of Physical Self has found place on different Schools of
Psychology, like psychoanalysis, behaviorism, humanism etc. For
example:
• William James considered body as initial source of sensation and
necessary for the origin and maintenance of personality. It is an element
of spiritual hygiene of supreme significance. For example, a boxer
during a fight, do not notice/feels his wounds until the intensity of fight
has subside.

• Sigmund Freud, In Psychoanalytical school, construction of self and


personality makes the physical body the core of human experience.

• Wilhelm Reichargued that mind and body are one; all psychological
processes, he postulated, are a part of physical processes, and vice
versa.
• According to Erik Erikson, the role of bodily organs is especially important in
early developmental stages of a persons life. Later in life, the development of
physical as well as intellectual skills help determine whether the individual
will achieve a sense of competence and ability to choose demanding roles in
a complex society. For example a child get their confidence when they
bigger, stronger, faster and more capable of learning complex skills.

• Carl Jung, argued that the physical body and the external world can be
known only as psychological experiences.

• B.F. Skinner, says that the role of the body is of primary importance.
• Which from this different orientation clearly show us and
explains how people deals with their physical self.
Regardless of what culture or traditions he or she may be,
his or her interpretation of himself will be how people act in
the community.
SELF-ESTEEM
• People from different culture have opted to change their features in
attempt to meet the cultural standards of beauty, as well as their
religious and/or social obligations.
• They modify and adorn their bodies as part of the part of complex
process of creating and re-creating their personal and social identity
to be accepted by society and to be able to accept them self.
• This includes body painting, tattooing, jewelries and adornments.
Youth in present time are too conscious of their physical attributes
that they are not confident to face the day without make-up.
• As our physical self, dictates how we act in front of other
people it also defines how we will manage our self-esteem.
Yet, this self-esteem is vital on how we form positive and
healthy relationships with people around us.
• We have different kinds of self-esteem
• 1. The Inflated Self- Esteem (this people holds high regards of
themselves. Better than the other to the point of under estimating them),
• 2. High Self-Esteem (this is a positive self-esteem, which make the
person be satisfied of themselves)
• 3. Low Self-Esteem (this person do not value themselves and do not
trust their possibilities).
• Most of the times, this self-esteem are define by what
physical attributes they have. Beauty as define by the
society, culture or traditions, is what matter to the person.
• Activity - Self-esteem Scale
• Instruction: Access self-esteem scale from the following
site,

• https://openpsychometrics.org/tests/
RSE.php.

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